A guest blog posted on Nov. 19 by Broadcasting & Cable addresses the recent closed captioning requirements for broadcasters and cable operators issued by the…
Posts published in “Captioning”
On Oct. 27, Darlene Parker, RPR, the director of steno captioning and realtime relations at the National Captioning Institute, guided a few NCRA staff members…
On Nov. 10, the Federal Communications Commission hosted a roundtable on closed captioning of PEG programming. PEG stands for public, educational, and governmental television channels.…
NCRA member Lois Boyle, RMR, Newport News, Va., was quoted in an article posted by the Daily Press on Nov. 8 about area theaters providing…
A press release posted on Oct. 19 by TVTechnology announced that EEG has launched the Falcon Web-Streaming Caption Encoder, a virtual caption encoder that offers…
Oct. 8 marked the five-year anniversary of the Communications and Video Accessibility Act being signed into law. The CVAA mandated that any program that was…
By Sue Terry Are there markets for us outside of the legal industry? You bet! You need look no further than YouTube to get started.…
An editorial posted in the Hamilton County Herald, on Oct. 2, showcased the career and captioning skills of NCRA member Linda Hershey, RDR, CRR, CBC,…
NCRA member Laura Workman, RMR, CRR, an official court reporter from White Heath, Ill., was featured in an article posted by The News-Gazette on Oct.…
High security, audio glitches, and sometimes difficult accents didn’t hinder the NCRA members who had the opportunity to caption the events held during Pope Francis’…
International Week of the Deaf, an initiative of the World Federation of the Deaf, is being celebrated this week by the global deaf community. The…
On Sept. 3, NCRA and several captioning vendors submitted comments to the Federal Communications Commission on three issues connected to the implementation of the caption…
1CapApp announces a maintenance release that includes two minor enhancements and fixes five known issues for 1Connect. The enhancements include putting a hard stop value that…
An article posted Aug. 20 by SportsVideo.org, reports that Harvard University has recently renovated its centralized control room to allow for the department’s video production…
Adam Finkel, NCRA’s Director of Government Relations, represented the Association on a panel that addressed issues related to the current quality of television captions during…
An Aug. 18 post by The Denver Post’s eLetters blog included a submission from a reader who is hard of hearing calling for local television…
The wide array of sessions and presentations adorned with tips and tricks as well as the latest in trends at the 2015 NCRA Convention &…
In a July 29 Education Week commentary piece, public radio reporter Monica Brady-Myerov wrote that reading same-language subtitles can boost students’ literacy. She cites studies…
By Jen Schuck There are many differences between a court reporter and a CART or broadcast captioner. However, one similarity is the electronic file that is…
The Huntsville, Ala., City Council now will include closed captioning of the meetings shown live on TV and streamed on the Web, according to AL.com,…